Indian applicants have been welcomed in 2006/7 to the JET Programme, starting with just one slot available in 2006 and 41 in 2007.
MEXT is one of three ministries that run the JET Programme.
The town is part of the JET Programme and currently employs four native English Speakers to work in the town's schools.
Kamitonda has participated in the JET Programme since at least 2000.
The town participates in the JET Programme, employing two representatives who regularly visit the junior high schools and elementary schools to teach English.
As more countries were included, the programmes were folded into a single entity, the JET Programme, in 1987.
Several prefectures have opted out of the JET Programme in recent years.
From 2003 to 2006, he lived and worked in Japan as an assistant English teacher with the JET Program.
He returned again to Japan in July 2011 to work with the JET Program.
The town of Hamatonbetsu participates in the JET Programme.